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Wowhead Weekly #56, Mystery Items in WoW
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24.10.2015 um 23:30
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Wowhead Weekly #56 covers Hallow's End, more info on the Wowhead BlizzCon Party, 6.2.3 Valor Points, Wrath Timewalking, and more!
Wowhead Weekly is a World of Warcraft podcast with Wowhead Site Manager
Perculia
and Video Manager
TradeChat
where all the recent Blizzard news and Wowhead developments are discussed. You can
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to see every episode. We also livestream each episode Friday afternoons, starting at 6pm EST, on
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. If you subscribe to our twitch channel, you can get Pepe and rocket emotes!
Referenced articles include:
Wowhead BlizzCon Party RSVP and Info Page
Wowhead Party Pins and Virtual Ticket Giveaway
Terky Murloc Pet
Hallow's End 2015 Guide
Valor in Patch 6.2.3
Wrath Timewalking Guide
Mystery Items in WoW
As discussed on the show,
Terky
was added to the game weeks before players discovered it. Here's a look at other fun mystery items, and some things Blizzard does to obscure items from players.
As Game Designer Muffinus tweeted, he started experimenting with obscure items during Patch 5.2:
Brennende Saat
is an item druids could loot from
Brennende Saat
near Staghelm's portal in
Die Feuerlande
which turned them into a fire kitty. It took players
over a month
to discover it, and was very popular once announced.
Münzbeutel des Überlebenden
is a rogue-only toy that involved Ravenholdt Manor,
Glyphe 'Verkleiden'
, and
Ausgebrannte Glyphe
. It too took several weeks to be discovered after the patch went live.
During the Warlords beta, the
Petopia community
worked together
to discover how to tame the exotic pet
Gara
. They looked through the Wowhead data for items with similar IDs and made educated guesses on where they were from. They later
worked together in 6.2
to discover how to tame the
Dämonenversklavter Wolf
wolf.
Another Warlords example is the
Leerenkralle des dunklen Sterns
. This mount was teased in a Patch 6.1 video preview as a difficult mount to obtain, but it took players a few days on live servers to discover how the portals worked. It was not found during the 6.1 PTR.
There are other ways Blizzard tries to prolong surprises in the data.
There have been NPCs added into the game with misleading names that are later changes to the correct names. For example, all of the rare spawns in Draenor that drop mounts originally had Silithus-themed names. Special battle pets like
Murkidan
and
Leuchtpfötchen
were originally unused Gronnling mounts with placeholder abilities, and the Heroes of the Storm pet
Grago
was originally "My Special Pet."
Some items that show up in the data are also unused for several patches. For example,
Saphirglühwürmchen
and
Purpurflügelmotte
were added during the Warlords beta, but were only obtainable as rare spawns in Patch 6.2. The
Eiserne Armada
toys, obtainable in 6.2.2, originally showed up as non-toy tonk controllers during the beta and were mostly-forgotten about when Warlords went live.
Most times unused items are forgotten about, but a few do catch on among the community. For example,
Guck mal, wer da piept!
and the disguises were added months ago, but only went live last week.
There are several unused items currently that are interesting:
Aufblasbarer Donnerzorn, Gesegnete Klinge des Windsuchers
: Equip your Inflatable Thunderfury. Also has the
Hat da jemand Donnerzorn erwähnt?
achievement.
Mysteriöse Blume
: Toy from beta that didn't make it to live--there were flowers on the beta you could interact with and trigger a short random event.
There are several unused mount recolors such as
Yu'lei, Tochter der Jade
,
Zügel des orangfarbenen Wasserschreiters
,
Zügel der Kafayaks
. They may pop up in a later patch as some mounts get added years before appearing in-game, like
Teufelsfeuerfalke
,
Zügel der himmlischen Goldwolkenschlange
,
Zügel der himmlischen Azurwolkenschlange
, and
Zügel des purpurroten Wasserschreiters
.
Eisenbauchs Spirituosen
is a toy from the unused quest
Heben der Stimmung
.
Gnomischer Feiervollstrecker
: Added during Warlords' beta, this item would let you strike a celebratory pose.
Do you think we'll see some of these added in the future? Any other unused items or achievements you'd like to see in game?
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